A Highland Fling!

Have you ever seen those kilted men-mountains going head to head in what might be considered as some unusual sporting events?  Well, in our experience at least, more and more people are just dying to have a go at traditional Highland Games and find out a bit more...

Discover Canoeing (book)

Discover Canoeing is a complete introduction to open canoeing. Canoeing and kayaking have topped the UK charts for water sports since 2003, matched only by angling (British Marine Federation survey). Over one million people went canoeing in 2008. This is the first...

UK Hillwalking Forum

You may already be aware of the UK Climbing Forum, which is a great resource for anyone into climbing or mountaineering and is currently the biggest of its kind in the world. However, recently launched was the UK Hillwalking forum, a similar online forum aimed more at...

Drambuie Pursuit

The Drambuie Pursuit is over for another year, the 6th year since inception.  We’ve been involved since the outset having worked closely with the event organisers Events 22 and Drambuie throughout, organising many of the events, staff and logistics throughout...

Gear Review

We’ve just tested out some new kit on a 3-day descent of the River Spey by canoe, and thought you might like to hear about it. Our instructor, Adrian, was more than happy to test this kit out with a group of 9 we guided down the River Spey 2 weeks ago.  For the...

Tasty camp food

Campfood has come a long way in the last few years and it doesn’t have to be tasteless mush anymore. There’s some great books out there but I do like this this one by Cicerone.  Moveable Feasts isn’t just a recipe book but has loads of other useful...